catch up
Fall is falling and I have turned off the air conditioner and opened the windows to greet it.
Today
I haven't been writing very much at all, I've been so busy with work and church that I barely have time to reply to emails, which I love getting, and that I do late too these days,
My poor students have been working their fannies off, bless their hearts, I did say I was a tough teacher, I'd tell the "bee story" but I'm pretty sure I've told it too much already.
Oh what the hay, I'll tell it anyway,
We're on the playground for recess and one my students comes up to me and says, "I caught a bee".
I say, looking around, "what?"
"I caught a bee" he says, holding up his closed hand.
"You have to let it go!" I say with mounting fear.
"I caught a bee"
"You have to let it go".
"I caught a bee" he says with emphasis in case I don't understand how wonderful this is.
"You have to let it go, it might sting you"
"But I caught a bee" he says again.
This goes on for a few minutes. Finally he reluctantly opens his hand the bee is stunned. but flies away. He is not stung.
Later another teacher whispers in my ear, "God takes care of children and fools."
I whisper back, "And that child is looked after both ways."
